Governor Schwarzenegger Continues Assault on Court Reporters

Posted in: Electronic Recording

At a press conference today in Sacramento Governor Schwarzenegger continued his assault on the use of court reporters in superior court. At the press conference the governor pointed to a board that listed “savings” to the state if the legislature enacted his version of a budget. Included in his list of savings was a supposed $100 million that the governor claimed the state would be able to save annually by implementing ER.

I’ve embedded the video of his press conference and you can view his comments at the 6:18 mark.  I’ve taken his comments and posted them below.

We have electronic court reporting. A 100 million dollars. We do not need any people there. We have the technology now to do the reporting and the recording.

When you add this to his comments last week in which he said that court reporters were “old fashioned,” it’s more than clear that the Governor is itching for another fight to bring ER into more courtrooms and eliminating court reporters completely.

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